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Why Lingard Didn’t Like Newman
Lingard remarked upon Newman’s career several times in his correspondence, usually with a mixture of suspicion and curiosity.
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Blessed Ignatius Spencer’s Correspondence with Saint John Henry Newman
Just last month, on February 20th, Pope Francis declared that the nineteenth-century Passionist priest, Fr. Ignatius Spencer, would be known as the Venerable Ignatius Spencer.
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“Knowing God, Being Made holy,” A Lecture by Jennifer Newsome Martin
This lecture addresses the theme in St. John Henry Newman of the gradual—some would even say ordinary—pursuit of holiness throughout the course of the course of our human lives.
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A Chapel, a Desk, and One Man’s Saintly Witness – Reflections on the Canonization of John Henry Newman
A Chapel, a Desk, and One Man’s Saintly Witness – Reflections on the Canonization of...
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The Idea Idearum in Newman and BouyerDecember 16, 2021An important theological theme in the Christian tradition is that of the divine ideas or logoi in the mind or Word of God by which God knows and loves in himself eternally all the ways that creatures can or do participate in a living likeness of him. […]
Pusey House, Oxford Joins NINS Digital CollectionsDecember 8, 2021For readers who are interested in using the Pusey House collections for their research, here is an overview of what we have. Only original materials have been digitized, so the digital collection is slightly smaller than the physical one, but every authentic Newman item we have should now be accessible online. […]
Catholic Devotion to the Mother of God: What Newman’s Letter to Pusey (1866) tells us about Mariology and Marian PietyDecember 1, 2021Pusey’s appraisal of Mariology—a polemic containing a mixture of historical, theological and anecdotal evidence—was, on the whole, untrue and mostly a caricature; yet as Newman would be forced to admit in his formal published reply to Pusey in 1866, the Letter to Pusey, there was partial veracity to his claim that at times Mariology, in some of its devotional outpourings, has obscured devotion to God, especially God’s loving mediation brought to humanity through the Incarnation. […]
The Spanish Edition of Newman’s Letter to PuseyNovember 24, 2021Newman’s influence is not relegated to the English-speaking world only; rather, it can be seen in the Spanish-speaking world as well. […]
Ecclesiology in Newman’s Sermons, 1825–1835October 29, 2021The cumulative effect of the theological debates at Oxford, together with his pastoral experience and personal reflections, gradually led Newman to a more high church ecclesiological approach, especially on visibility, invisibility, and apostolicity of the church. […]